Bygone London Life: Pictures From A Vanished Past

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G. L. Apperson

Originally published in 1903

In Bygone London Life,
antiquary and social historian G.L. Apperson gives us glimpses of a
day-to-day London that was already long gone when his book was first
published in 1903—the raucous, vibrant city of Elizabethan
eating-houses, literary taverns, private museums, mincing Restoration
fops, and rowdy Georgian rakes. Here are types and institutions from the
late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries: playwrights and
sedan-chair operators; coffee-house wits and night watchmen; “pretty
fellows” and shoeblacks; kickshaws, macaronies, ordinaries, bucks and
bloods, and cabinets of curiosities—a kaleidoscope of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century life for the historian, the historical novelist, or
anyone who takes delight in the gone-but-not-forgotten past of a great
modern city.

G. L. Apperson (1857–1937) was a British school inspector and man of
letters. He was editor of The Antiquary from 1899 to 1915, and a major
contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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